Full coverage: Mayor Villaraigosa's relationship

(Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times) Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa acknowledged he's in a relationship with Telemundo TV news anchorwoman Mirthala Salinas (above, left). The revelation comes a month after he announced he was separating from his wife. Scroll down for the latest coverage.

Actor Tom Hanks had a great line in the movie "A League of Their Own." Playing the crusty manager of a women's baseball team, he berates one member into tears and shouts: "There's no crying! There's no crying in baseball." That came to mind when I read last week that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa...

THIS column is about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his love life, but give us a minute to get there: When it comes to reporting on politics and elected officials, distinguishing between what is properly private and what is necessarily public becomes more difficult all the time. It's...

At Cal State L.A. on Tuesday, Jaime Regalado was fielding a steady stream of e-mails, almost all of them from women who've had it with the Don Juan who calls himself our mayor. "They'll never vote for him again," Regalado, who runs the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs, said when I asked the...